LEWISBURG W.Va. (WVDN) – West Virginia Archives and History is pleased to announce that the following individual is among those who will be recognized as West Virginia History Heroes during a West Virginia History Day at the Legislature program and ceremony to be held at the Culture Center on the Capitol Complex in Charleston on Wednesday, March 12, 2025:
Mary Montgomery Lindquist of Lewisburg, nominated by the Greenbrier Historical Society.
A member of the board of directors for more than ten years, Mary Montgomery Lindquist is chair of the education committee of the Greenbrier Historical Society and past chair of the membership committee. In her current role, she is creating a better interface with county schools. On the membership committee, Dr. Lindquist finalized a re-vamp of the fee structure and helped create a new brochure. She also advocated for more attention to members and an assessment of their opinions and needs. Lindquist has served on many home tour committees, where she contributed her expertise in preparing homes for display and opened her own historic home for tours and fundraising events.
West Virginia History Heroes are nominated by historical, genealogical, preservation, museum, patriotic or like organizations from across the state. The purpose of this annual award is to give state level recognition to individuals chosen for dedicated service on behalf of an organization’s programs or for a recent significant contribution to state and local history through research, interpretation, publication, or preservation. The West Virginia History Hero Award is a one-time-only recognition.
The 2025 History Hero Awards program is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in the State Theater at the Culture Center and will conclude before 11 a.m. Honorees’ local legislators have been invited to participate in the ceremony at the Culture Center, time and legislative session permitting. During this time, photographs will be taken, copies of which can be obtained by visiting https://wvculture.zenfolio.com/p222334704 the week after History Day.
West Virginia History Day at the Legislature was begun by the West Virginia Archives and History Commission in 1997 and is officially designated by the commission as a special day to recognize the state’s rich and varied history. This annual event, during which groups from around the state provide history displays in the capitol, is now in its twenty-ninth year. This year, more than three dozen groups have registered to have displays in the upper rotunda of the capitol, where we will share some of our space with Tourism Day.
In addition to the Archives and History Commission, co-sponsors of West Virginia History Day are the Mining Your History Foundation, Preservation Alliance of West Virginia, Inc., West Virginia Association of Museums, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, West Virginia Historical Society, and West Virginia Humanities Council.
